Community calendar (The Laker)

We want your listings! Listings for the community calendar are free, but not guaranteed. We encourage you send us your listings of upcoming events and we will do our best to include them.

News briefs (The Marion Sentinel)

Find out what's happening in the tri-town area.

Nigeria: Not Just Another Carnival in Calabar (AllAfrica.com)

Lagos — The Carnival Calabar, which is quickly becoming a tourism event in the calendar of the people of Cross River State, has come and gone, but some of the participants and visitors agree that the just concluded cavalcade will be long remembered.

Sab students aids pet adoptions (Pearland Journal)

Sablatura Middle School students are putting their own spin on the holiday spirit of caring and giving with goodwill toward animals.

News in brief (West Salem Coulee News)

Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.